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Senior Cloud Platform Engineer- Presto SaaS (BYOC, GPU Platforms)

IBM

Software Engineering

San Jose, CA, USA

Posted on Mar 26, 2026

Introduction

We are hiring a senior engineer to design and deliver a BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) platform for Presto SaaS across Azure and AWS (IBM Cloud is a strong plus), with a focus on GPU-enabled infrastructure. This role will lead architecture and implementation of secure, scalable, production-grade deployments for enterprise customers running Presto workloads on Kubernetes/OpenShift, with GitOps-based operations.

What Success Looks Like (First 6–12 Months)

• Production-ready BYOC reference architecture for Azure and AWS (with GPU support).

• Automated, repeatable deployment blueprints using Argo CD/Flux CD.

• Reliable Kubernetes/OpenShift runtime with clear SLOs, observability, and incident playbooks.

• Reduced onboarding time for new customer environments.

• Documented architecture standards and best practices adopted across teams.

Your role and responsibilities

Define and drive architecture for Presto SaaS BYOC deployments on Azure and AWS.

• Design GPU-native infrastructure patterns for high-performance query processing and related workloads.

• Build and operate multi-cloud Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms for reliability, scale, and cost efficiency.

• Implement and standardize deployment workflows using Argo CD and/or Flux CD.

• Develop cloud platform services, automation, and operators using Go and Python.

• Create robust provisioning and operational tooling using shell scripting and IaC patterns.

• Lead platform security, networking, IAM, observability, and production readiness.

• Collaborate with product, SRE, security, and engineering teams to convert requirements into production architecture.

• Own design reviews, implementation plans, and technical execution across teams.

• Mentor engineers and establish engineering standards, documentation, and operational playbooks.

• Troubleshoot complex multi-cloud and GPU platform issues in production environments.

• Contribute to roadmap decisions for Presto SaaS platform modernization and customer onboarding.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

6-8+ years of hands-on cloud platform engineering experience, including senior-level architecture ownership.

• Strong production experience with Azure.

• Strong production experience with AWS.

• Deep expertise with Kubernetes; practical experience with OpenShift in enterprise environments.

• Strong experience with GPU infrastructure (sizing, scheduling, drivers/runtime, performance tuning, and operations).

• Strong coding skills in Go and Python.

• Solid scripting and automation skills with Bash/Shell.

• Proven experience designing end-to-end cloud architectures and driving implementation.

• Strong understanding of cloud-native technologies: networking, IAM, storage, security, observability, and CI/CD.

• Hands-on experience deploying workloads with Argo CD and/or Flux CD.

• Working knowledge of Presto (open source) architecture, deployment, and operations.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Experience with IBM Cloud (added advantage).

• Experience building BYOC or customer-managed deployment models for SaaS products.

• Familiarity with Presto ecosystem components and query engine performance optimization.

• Experience with multi-cluster/multi-region platform design.

• Prior contributions to open-source or internal platform frameworks.

Strong ownership and decision-making in ambiguous, high-impact environments.

• Excellent cross-team collaboration and stakeholder communication.

• Ability to balance architecture quality with execution speed.

• Mentorship mindset and commitment to engineering excellence.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

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Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

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Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being

- Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs

- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law

- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals

- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

US Citizenship Required.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

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